University Hospital Münster

University Hospital Münster
Sponsorship	UKM
place	Munster , Germany
Coordinates	51 ° 57 '40 "  N , 7 ° 35' 55"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 57 '40 "  N , 7 ° 35' 55"  E
management	Hugo Van Aken
beds	1,457
Employee	10,823
areas of expertise	45
founding	1774
Website	www.ukm.de

The landmark of the university clinic: the towers of the central clinic , called the bed towers

The University Hospital of Muenster (UKM) is a German hospital of maximum care in Munster . It has 1,457 beds, in which a total of 61,376 inpatients and 486,734 outpatients were treated in 2018. It consists of over 40 individual clinics and polyclinics that work closely with the Medical Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster . It has more than 10,000 employees, including professors, other doctors and scientists, nurses as well as medical-technical employees, gardeners and computer scientists. The UKM campus is located in the Sentrup district .

The landmark of the UKM is the central hospital with its two towers. Each of the two towers has 19 levels, each with two circular stations. Many specialist departments of the UKM are located in the central clinic, other disciplines, such as general, visceral and transplant surgery, trauma surgery, the eye clinic, the ear, nose and throat clinic and the skin clinic and, in particular, research laboratories, are located in separate buildings the campus surrounding the central hospital.

The UKM has two helicopter landing pads. The most popular one is in the south-east of the UKM in the direct vicinity of the trauma surgery. This is also where the responsible emergency doctor helicopter lands. The other landing site is in the northwest near the UKM pharmacy and tower west. It is mostly used for the helicopter-assisted transfer of intensive care patients.

history

The history of the university hospital can be traced back to 1774, when the first medical faculty at the University of Münster was opened. It consisted of only one university professor who gave lectures in anatomy, surgery, and obstetrics. Due to the downgrading of the university to an academic institute in 1818 in the course of the re-establishment of the university in Bonn , the faculty was closed again. What remained from 1821 was a school of surgeons , which, like all other schools of surgeons, was closed in 1849 because doctors were now supposed to complete a university degree.

Old and new: In the foreground the former heating and power station and now the headquarters of the social services, in the background the east tower of the Central Clinic

Only with the re-establishment of the university in 1902 was a medical-propaedeutic department set up again in 1905. The Dental Institute opened in 1907. In the course of the expansion of the university in 1914, the medical faculty was also to be reopened. However, the construction of the necessary clinics was delayed significantly due to the First World War , so that they could not be handed over until May 15, 1925. On that day, the medical faculty was officially opened. Gerhard Domagk also started teaching this year , as the only Nobel Prize winner to date at the faculty. The pathological institute is named after him.

During the Second World War , the university hospital was badly damaged, in particular by around 120 heavy high explosive bombs from the air raids, which began in late autumn 1944, without a break. As a result, the Medical Faculty of the University of Münster was relocated to Bad Salzuflen . The reopening of the university clinic after the Second World War took place in November 1945. Numerous new buildings followed.

Further establishment of institutes in the 1970s made it necessary to expand the clinic. After a long planning period, construction of the Central Clinic began towards the end of the 1970s, with its two 62 m high towers visible from afar, which was completed in 1983. The cost of this new building amounted to a good billion marks.

In 1998 the Center for Bone Marrow Transplantation (KMT) was opened and the building of a former British military hospital was incorporated into the university hospital as new research areas. In 2001 the Münster University Hospital became independent as an institution under public law.

Renovation work has been taking place on the towers and the surrounding buildings since 2016. With an investment volume of 340 million euros, the facade of the bed towers will be renewed and renovations carried out in the interior by 2020. The institutes for microbiology, virology and hygiene will also be brought together at one location at the Coesfelder Kreuz. Further stations and outpatient departments will be created in the KMT center.

Clinics and facilities

The UKM has a total of 45 clinics, departments and centers for patient care, each with their own history, direction and focus.

overview

• Gerhard Domagk Institute for Pathology

• Clinic for General Orthopedics and Tumor Orthopedics
• Clinic for General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery
• Clinic for anesthesiology, operative intensive care medicine and pain therapy
• Clinic for Congenital and Acquired Heart Defects
• Ophthalmology Clinic
• Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery
• Department of Cardiology and Angiology
• Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics
• Ear, nose and throat clinic
• Department of Skin Diseases - General Dermatology and Venereology
• Cardiac Surgery Clinic
• Cardiology Clinic
• Polyclinic for Orthodontics
• Clinic for Child and Adolescent Medicine - General Pediatrics
• Clinic for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine - Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
• Clinic for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine - Pediatric Cardiology
• Clinic for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine - Pediatric Rheumatology and Immunology
• Clinic for pediatric orthopedics, deformity reconstruction and foot surgery
• Clinic for child and adolescent psychiatry, psychosomatics and psychotherapy
• Department of Pediatric and Neonatal Surgery
• Bone Marrow Transplant Center
• Laboratory medicine

Facade of the Center for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine (built 1980), in which the west tower is reflected

• Medical Clinic A (hematology, hemostaseology, oncology and pulmonology)
• Medical Clinic B (general internal medicine as well as gastroenterology and metabolic diseases)
• Medical Clinic D (general internal medicine as well as kidney and hypertension diseases and rheumatology)
• Polyclinic for oral and maxillofacial surgery
• Neurosurgery Clinic
• Clinic for General Neurology
• Nuclear Medicine Clinic
• Polyclinic for Periodontology
• Clinic for Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology
• Polyclinic for Prosthetic Dentistry and Biomaterials
• Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
• Clinic for Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy
• Institute for Radiology (X-ray)
• Center for Reproductive Medicine and Andrology
• Clinic for Sleep Medicine and Neuromuscular Diseases
• Radiation Therapy Clinic - Radiation Oncology
• Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Transplant Immunology
• Transplant Medicine Clinic
• Clinic for Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery
• Urology Clinic
• Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
• Polyclinic for tooth preservation

Department of Skin Diseases - General Dermatology and Venereology

The building of the skin clinic

The Dermatology Clinic is a center in the field of dermatology . The Dermatology Clinic is not located in the central building of the Münster University Clinic, but is currently still located separately on Von-Esmarch- Strasse.

history

The Department of Dermatology was founded on May 1st, 1925. Alfred Stühmer (1885–1957) was appointed first director. The clinic was initially not housed in the representative building that still exists today, but in the Clarastift in the Stubengasse of the city of Münster. In 1932 Alfred Stühmer founded the "Lupus Heilstätte Haus Hornheide", a special clinic for the treatment of the skin tuberculosis, which was widespread at the time . Nowadays, the Hornheide Specialist Clinic focuses on tumor diseases of the skin. In 1934 Julius Karl Mayr (1888–1965) took over the management of the University Dermatology Clinic in Münster. In 1937 Carl Moncorps (1896–1952) became director of the dermatology clinic.

In October 1943 the Clarastift was partially destroyed by a bomb attack. The dermatology clinic moved to a retirement home in Ascheberg with 76 beds at the time . In November 1944, all the clinics at the University of Münster were relocated to Bad Salzuflen . In addition to the beds in Ascheberg, the dermatology clinic in Bad Salzuflen also maintains 20 other beds and a polyclinic.

After the end of the war, C. Moncorps set up an outpatient clinic in his private home in Münster in May 1945. In particular, there was a rapid increase in sexually transmitted diseases in the years after the end of the war .

In 1950 the clinic moved to the former Luftwaffe hospital on Von-Esmarch- Strasse with 130 beds , eliminating the "fragmentation" . Carl Moncorps died two years later. Paul Jordan (1902–1975) became the new director . In February 1952, the British military confiscated the east wing of the building, which means that the dermatology clinic loses only a few rooms, as the greater part is located in the west wing. Modernization conversions are carried out and, in particular, the allergy and radiation department expanded.

In May 1972 Egon Macher (1924–2008) was appointed clinic director. Under E. Macher u. a. the "Department of Experimental Dermatology" founded. The number of beds was reduced to 100. In 1990 Thomas A. Luger was appointed director of the clinic. In 1992 the British soldiers withdrew from the east wing of the building. The premises were u. a. later obtained from the "Center for Molecular Biology of Inflammation" (ZMBE). The clinic was partially renovated and the number of beds was reduced to 60 inpatients and 15 semi-inpatients. In June 2004 the “Clinical Center for Innovative Dermatology” was founded to support clinical studies.

activity

Around 3,800 patients are cared for annually on four wards with a total of 60 beds. More than 20,000 outpatients are treated annually. The director is Kerstin Steinbrink.

Focus of patient care are Allergology with occupational dermatology and Environmental Medicine , Andrology , Aesthetic Dermatology and Laser Medicine, Dermatologic Surgery , dermatooncology (skin cancer screening and Skin Cancer Center), Neuro Dermatology and competence center pruritus, Phlebology , Photo-dermatology , clinic with a focus on eczema , psoriasis , circular hair loss, autoimmune diseases of the Skin, private outpatient clinic and optional service ward , day clinic and a wound clinic.

Research focuses on allergy, Dermatohistology , Five-dimensional intravital imaging human skin, genetics and biology of inflammatory skin diseases, immune response in infections , cutaneous immunity , Cutaneous vascular biology, melanoma immunology and biology, neuro- inflammation , pathophysiology of autoimmune diseases , Pruritusmechanismen and Neurosurgery Dermatology , vasculopathy in scleroderma and vasculitis .

Family house with palliative care

The care of children and adolescents with cancer in a “family house” with palliative medicine at the university hospital is a role model. A bridging team of cancer experts and carers ensures that terminally ill children and adolescents also have access to the full spectrum of modern medicine and care in the home environment.

Research and cooperation

The Medical Branch Library of the University and State Library of Münster

Due to the dovetailing of the UKM with the Medical Faculty of the University of Münster, findings from the 32 university research institutes and special research areas financed by the German Research Foundation flow into the treatment .

The following Collaborative Research Centers (SFB) exist at the Münster University Hospital:

• SFB-TRR58 : (2008–2020) Fear, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders (Coordination: Münster in cooperation with Würzburg, Hamburg and Mainz)
• SFB 1009 : (2012–2020) Breaking Barriers - Immune cells and pathogenic agents on cell / matrix barriers (Münster)
• SFB-TRR128 : (2012–2020) Initiation, Effector and Regulation Mechanisms in Multiple Sclerosis - From a New Understanding of Pathogenesis to Therapy (coordination: Münster in cooperation with Munich and Rhein-Main Universities)
• SFB 656 : (2005–2017) Molecular Cardiovascular Imaging (MoBil) - from mouse to human (Münster) (film portrait: Research in SFB 656)

Special collaborations exist (or have existed) with the Max Planck Society , which established a Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster in 2001 , and the Leibniz Institute, which is affiliated with the university (now closed) for atherosclerosis research (LIFA).

The Hornheide Specialist Clinic has been cooperating with the UKM in the field of plastic surgery since 2018 .

Certification

In 2010 the certification process according to KTQ was completed. In 2013 and 2016 the UKM was recertified and again awarded the KTQ certificate.

The administration was certified according to ISO 9001 in 2016.

literature

• S. Ständer, H. Ständer, TA Luger: The University Skin Clinic Münster. Springer, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-540-28018-9 .
• Erik Harms: Memories of the Münster Children's Hospital. In: Experienced paediatrics. Contributions to the history of paediatrics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster. Edited by Fritz Hilgenberg, Münster 1992, pp. 249-258, ISBN 9783540424611 .

Web links

Commons : Universitätsklinikum Münster  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• University Hospital Münster (UKM)
• UKM site plan as PDF
• Overview of all centers
• Overview of all clinics
• Overview of all institutes
• Quality report University Hospital Münster
• The UKM - one of the largest and most modern hospital centers in Germany with an eventful history Article

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Annual Report 2016. Accessed July 24, 2017 . 
2. ^ Münster University Hospital / Clinics. accessed on February 27, 2014.
3. ↑ Cooperation with the Münster University Hospital. Retrieved November 25, 2019 . 
4. ↑ KTQ press release , accessed on February 27, 2014.